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Ravishing disunities : real ghazals in English / edited by Agha Shahid Ali ; afterword by Sara Suleri Goodyear.
Van Pelt Library PS593.G44 R38 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wesleyan poetry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghazals, American.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 195 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Middleton, Conn.] : Wesleyan University Press ; Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, [2000]
- Summary:
- In recent years, the ghazal (pronounced "ghuzzle"), a traditional Arabic form of poetry, has become popular among contemporary English language poets. But like the haiku before it, the ghazal has been widely misunderstood and thus most English ghazals have been far from the mark in both letter and spirit. This anthology brings together ghazals by a rich gathering of 107 poets including Diane Ackerman, John Hollander, W. S. Merwin, William Matthews, Paul Muldoon, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and many others. As this dazzling collection shows, the intricate and self-reflexive ghazal brings the writer a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Agha Shahid Ali's lively introduction gives a brief history of the ghazal and instructions on how to compose one in English. An elegant afterword by Sarah Suleri Goodyear elucidates the larger issues of cultural translation and authenticity inherent in writing in a "borrowed" form.
- Contents:
- The Ghazals
- Diane Ackerman 17
- Sondra Audin Armer 18
- Craig Arnold 19
- Diane Averill 20
- John Balaban 21
- Carol Jane Bangs 22
- Molly Bendall 23
- Lorna Knowles Blake 24
- Robert Boswell 26
- Karen Brennan 27
- Sharon Bryan 28
- Denver Butson 29
- John Canaday 31
- Robert N. Casper 32
- G. S. Sharat Chandra 33
- Richard Chess 36
- Marcyn Del Clements 38
- Katharine Coles 40
- Michael Collier 42
- Martha Collins 44
- Steven Cordova 45
- Katherine Cottle 46
- Rachel Dacus 47
- Keki N. Daruwalla 48
- Sharon Dolin 50
- John Drury 51
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz 58
- Annie Finch 59
- Forrest Gander 60
- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib 62
- Reginald Gibbons 63
- Justin Goldberg 64
- Sara Suleri Goodyear 65
- John Gribble 66
- John Haag 67
- Marilyn Hacker 68
- Daniel Hales 69
- Daniel Hall 70
- Robert Hastings 71
- Christian Hawkey 72
- James Heflin 73
- Cynthia Hogue 74
- John Hollander 76
- Colette Inez 78
- David Raphael Israel 79
- James Jack 81
- Shelli Jankowski-Smith 82
- Paul Jenkins 84
- Aaron Van Jordan 86
- Bhagwan Kapoor 87
- Rafiq Kathwari 89
- Richard Kenney 90
- Nancy King 92
- Phyllis Koestenbaum 93
- Maxine Kumin 94
- Anthony Lacavaro 95
- Dominic Le Fave 97
- Kelly Le Fave 99
- Gabrielle LeMay 101
- Stuart Lishan 102
- Barbara Little 103
- William Matthews 104
- Glyn Maxwell 111
- J. D. McClatchy 112
- Heather McHugh 113
- W. S. Merwin 114
- Padmini Mongia 116
- Paul Muldoon 117
- Isabel Nathaniel 121
- Mil Norman-Risch 122
- Peggy O'Brien 123
- James O'Keefe 125
- Jacqueline Osherow 126
- Elise Paschen 127
- Peg Peoples 129
- Teresa M. Pfeifer 130
- Stanley Plumly 132
- Mary Pryor 134
- John Richard Reed 136
- Mary Jo Salter 140
- Grace Schulman 141
- Sagaree Sengupta 143
- Greg Simon 144
- Maurya Simon 145
- David R. Slavitt 146
- Ron Smith 147
- Carole Stone 150
- Elisabeth Stoner 151
- Adrienne Su 152
- Dorothea Tanning 153
- Judith Taylor 154
- Jennifer Tonge 155
- Roderick Townley 156
- Wyatt Townley 157
- Ann Townsend 158
- Ellen Bryant Voigt 159
- Bryan Walpert 160
- Rosanna Warren 161
- Robert William Watkins 162
- Ellen Dore Watson 164
- Paul West 166
- Rachel Wetzsteon 167
- John Edgar Wideman 168
- Bruce Williams 170
- Eleanor Wilner 172
- Stephen Yenser 173
- David Young 174
- Harriet Zinnes 175
- Martha Zweig 176.
- ISBN:
- 0819564389
- 0819564370
- OCLC:
- 44083855
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